Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 2 | A pipe feeding the power steering system came adrift on the climb oil to pump out of the hydraulic system , and Fisher seized the opportunity to start building a lead that was eventually to carry him to a record fourth successive Lakes victory . |
| 3 | But win Norwich did and they have since gone on to preserve their First Division lives and reach the FA Cup semi-finals . |
| 4 | She will go back eventually to continue her studies there . |
| 5 | The University has committed substantial additional resources for IT in 1993–4 in order effectively to implement its long-term strategic plans for IT . |
| 6 | We knew very little about these last clients of the season except that they were two attorneys and a proctologist , all from Georgia and all vacationing with their wives , and we also knew that one of the wives was a vegetarian and that the proctologist hated pasta , but beyond that our guests were utter strangers and so we waited nervously to see what kind of people would be our companions and paymasters for the next week . |
| 7 | A mother 's task is thus not to create something out of nothing but rather to dovetail her behaviour to that of the infant 's . [ … ] |
| 8 | He then proceeded to stare into Charlie 's ears and eyes before going on to hit his kneecaps with a rubber stick . |
| 9 | We might have been a lot wiser if , presumably to preserve their privacy , they had n't always used English in front of Maria . |
| 10 | Somewhere to treat yourself or buy that special gift . |
| 11 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 12 | The TA course 's patrolling is coming on well and the visitor has moved on to see What the junior intake is doing . |
| 13 | We relaxed for an hour with a cup of tea and Otley switched the magic box on to see what the world was up to . |
| 14 | Five things to achieve may well seem a lot , but for encouragement read on to see what objectives other women have set themselves . |
| 15 | Her depleted tray cooling fast , she moved on to see what else she could find . |
| 16 | Marc had already admitted he had been leading her on to see what she would do . |
| 17 | A market economy constructed around communitarian values and proactively managed is the engine of wealth creation — and the race is on to see which party adopts that credo as its own . |
| 18 | Playing with Darcy , the 33-year-old Dubliner dropped a shot early on to see his lead reduced by two shots . |
| 19 | and a little boy nipped on to see his mum the boy never got off so he was still on the bus |
| 20 | John Wesley edited an abridged edition and used it widely to support his sermons . |
| 21 | As you climb by the road , you see a ring of mountains to your right which you might easily take to be the Cirque de Troumouse , but this is in fact yet a third cirque , that of Estaubé , intermediate between Gavarnie and Troumouse , imposing in its own right if too withdrawn properly to enclose you , as a good cirque should . |
| 22 | So I wondered what chance I had of outstaying Lebanese men who had picked up their first Kalashnikov aged six , or the Vietnamese man who had seen his mother raped before going on to kill his first Cambodian at the age when I was doing my Common Entrance . |
| 23 | Instead of using complicated measurements involving colour purity , resolution etc. to compare their performance I simply used each monitor for a day . |
| 24 | But before she could react , Jake went on to assure her , ‘ What 's more , you 're wrong to believe I was prying . |
| 25 | When the old Major , so soon to die , had travelled secretly to see his son and meet her , she recognized his courtesy because he was a gentleman , but there was no welcome and no warmth in him . |
| 26 | The study went on to estimate what fuels would have been used in electricity generation if there had been no nuclear power , concluding that the world 1987 total of 1660,800 million kilowatt-hours of electricity generated by nuclear power had displaced 1,790 million barrels of oil , 185 million tonnes of coal and 3,103,000 million cubic feet of natural gas , and had meant the avoidance of purchases of OPEC oil to the value of US$30,700 million in that year alone . |
| 27 | Realising that his visitor was no ordinary mortal , the watchman did not challenge him but jumping to his feet he kept his eyes fixed firmly on the intruder , hoping thereby to induce him to retire . |
| 28 | The main point I want to make is that the only justification for treating the sick and injured wild animal is to be able eventually to restore it to its wild existence . |
| 29 | This woman violates the taboo of not touching any man when in a state of impurity by secretly touching his garment , hoping thereby to heal herself . |
| 30 | ‘ But before I go on to thank our host , Lord Darlington , I have some small thing I would wish to remove from my chest . |